Adjust the exact URL as per what you have available, and substitute the computer’s hostname with the <host> string. The above is specific for Mac OS X, but most Linux distributions will have curl available as a package if it’s not installed by default; I know all the BSD's have it in ports/pkgsrc.

Use ‘crontab -e’ to edit your crontab, except on Mac OS X, where you must create a file, eg. ~/.crontab, with the line above, and then run crontab < ~/.crontab. Annoying, but it’s been like this forever, so I suppose Apple think it’s a feature. (Yes, I have submitted a bug report).

I’ve set up a virtual host on my server specifically for tracking like this: